CIRCA 1725-30

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A NEAR PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN PARCEL-GILT WALNUT TABOURETS
CIRCA 1725-30
Each with a square padded seat upholstered in crimson and gold patterned cut-silk velvet decorated with embroidery, above a frieze decorated with foliate scrolls and husks, on cabriole legs headed by trailing husks, flanked by C-scrolls and joined by X-shaped acanthus-decorated stretchers centered by a flowerhead, terminating in square-section sabots carved with gadroons, differences in carving, minor differences in size, the walnut previously varnished
one: 20 in. (51 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58,5 cm.) deep, the other: 20 in. (51 cm.) high; 22½ in. (57 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep (2)

Literature

P.W. Meister and H Jedding (ed.), Das schöne Möbel im Lauf der Jahrhunderte, Heidelberg/Munich, 1958.

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Lot Essay

The elegant strapwork and floral-carved decoration on rails, legs and stretchers of these four late Baroque tabourets (lots 28 and 29) points towards a South German and almost certainly courtly origin. Their parcel-gilt and varnished walnut decoration relates to the furniture made for the counts of Schönborn at Schloss Pommersfelden and in particular to the seat furniture made in the 1720's by Servatius Brickard for the Neue Residenz at Bamberg (see H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. II, cat. 175, 177 and 179-181).

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